Indepth Look a Xbox One's 'GPU'

[Zappykins]

yo_john117 said:
So....technical jargon aside, what exactly does this mean?

Well, the guy does make some typos on the numbers.  And some of this is speculation, because some of legal issues and other stuff; yet it is still an interesting report.

Basically that there is a whole bunch of co-processors on the Xbox One chip. Which we knew, but I was, and probably others, concerned that it would be a complected mess to work with (like the Cell on the PS3), but according to this guy.  It is being integrated into DirectX, which I had hoped for, so the developer will not have to deal with complicated issues but Microsoft will take care of it for them.

The number of co-processors to handle sound, etc.  What this will do is free up the CPU to do other important things.  Also, due to the complexity of the CPU it will be able to (sort of) pre-render a scene before it sends it to the GPU.  Which could help explain why it's able to push more frames(according to reports) at 60FPS, while the PS4 is not getting there.

In addition there are reports that Sony is asking developers to use the GPU to for sound.  While someone pointed out they think it's a good thing; I counter that if it's in a game, it's a 'brute force' solution and a bad design flaw.  Also, that it would take power from the GPU, so this better GPU it has, would not have as much processing power left over for games.  So they would be sacrificing one of their advantages, which is just sad, and a little bit funny.

Some people who want to say "The PS4 is xx more powerful than the Xbone" got really upset and made personal attacks.  While they can not argue the fact the Xbox One's CPU and coprocessors is significantly larger and more powerful that the PS4's.

TL/DR Xbox CPU and CoProcessors are significantly larger more powerful than the PS4, and makes some people upset.